Grade Level Focus: K-5|6-8|9-12|High school to college transition
Experience Level: Level 101 - For beginners new to the field (0-1 years experience in K-12 Online Learning)|Level 201 - For intermediate level participants (2-4 years experience in K-12 Online Learning)|Level 301 - For advanced participants (5+ years of experience in K-12 Online Learning)
Exhibitor: Yes
Requires Purchase of Product to Implement: No
Session Description
In the transition to online learning, excellent face-to-face teachers often ask "How can I do that online?" Great online courses elicit a better question: "How can I get these results in the classroom?" In this session we'll be presenting web 2.0 tools that allow teachers to supplement their online or classroom instruction with open source content, collaboration, and creativity tools available for free (or nearly) on the web. Leave with a list of resources and ideas to implement immediately.
Session Twitter Hashtag: #vss102s1
Presentation Materials and Contributions
21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canada produced by the New Brunswick Department of Education
Links shared in the Popplet Presentation below (and many others listed on the Popplet, but not demonstrated in the session).
Content Resources
High School and College level
Juried, open source content resources, geared to university level courses. Could easily be used by higher level HS courses. http://merlot.org
Connexions open source content chunks for hs and college courses. http://cnx.org/content
Middle /High School
Khan Academy a VAST collection of video lessons, practice sessions, and review activities covering math from basic addition to advanced calculus. Also includes some additional subjects. http://khanacademy.org
Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards Aligned System Portal: Karpele’s documents with e-reader, lessons, PhET simulations, and much more! http://pdesas.org
Debategraph: visual maps on nearly any debate topic. Public, constantly growing perspectives on hundreds of topics. http://debategraph.org
Elementary Level
Teacher LED Whiteboard/ipad resources for elementary and middle school. Mostly math. Some primary letter/number material. http://teacherled.com
ABCYa.com Educational Computer Games for kids. Amazing volume of resources for each grade level, in multiple subjects. Don’t miss the animation program! http://abcya.com
Kinetic City from the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides games, activities, challenges geared to elementary students. http://www.kineticcity.com
Audio and video story books, activities, karaoke, and much, much more for elementary students. http://speakaboos.com
Demonstration Resources for all subjects and levels
SimpleBooklet a brand new, simple and quick way to create mashups of audio, video, images, text, and embedded code. http://simplebooklet.com
Museum Box: create a multi level/multi compartment museum box containing cubes. Each cube has multiple faces, and each face contains resources…text, documents, images, audio or video files. Customizable for number of levels and boxes. http://museumbox.e2bn.org
Glogster for education: create posters and have students collaborate creating unique resources. http://edu.glogster.com
Floorplanner allows anyone to create detailed floor plans. Great when a project requires this type of demonstration. http://floorplanner.com
Go!Animate allows quick, computer generated voices to be added to a series of characters, creating simple animations with your content. http://goanimate.com
Domo Go Animate allows the creator to move cartoon figures, add detailed movements, expressions, and interactions in a series of scenes. http://domogoanimate.com
Algebrahelp.com is a collection of lessons, calculators, and worksheets created to assist students and teachers of algebra. http://algebrahelp.com
The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. http://www.datamasher.org
BrainNook is a new online game that helps kids develop Math and English skills while exploring the Earth and playing safely with others. http://www.brainnook.com
Math games, lessons, practice, puzzles, books (Geometry, algebra, pre-calculus) http://www.coolmath.com
Illuminations is designed to provide standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics http://illuminations.nctm.org
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project with web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). http://nlvm.usu.edu
Books Should Be Free makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way. http://www.booksshouldbefree.com
The lessons are free. There is a new lesson every three days. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news - as the world's news breaks, teach it. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary
organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. http://www.atlapedia.com
AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. http://awesomestories.com
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
ClassroomEarth is an online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans. http://www.classroomearth.org/
EarthSky has science interviews and other audio and video content available via both broadcast and Internet outlets. http://earthsky.org/
Edufy provides a free platform to find, share, and edit high quality learning activities shared by other teachers with a focus on STEM education. http://www.edufy.org/
Knotebooks provides users with the tools to create, collaborate on and share customized, self-guided physics lessons. http://knotebooks.com/
The CyberSurgeons simulation provides an authentic way for high school and college students to apply science knowledge and skills. http://cybersurgeons.net/
ICT Magic – Great resource to find web tools for video editing, photos, science, music, etc. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite http://www.blender.org Flubaroo - Grade online assignments in a single step, free!http://www.flubaroo.com eduTeacher is a way to keep track of the growing number of web tools that can be used in the classroom settinghttp://www.edutecher.net/ Mini-Geek Fest Resourceshttp://livebinders.com/play/play/51493 Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia e-learning resources. The online Resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects.http://www.curriculumbits.com Cybrarian – provides help for kids in grades 3-8 with homework assignments, current events, research papers, science fair projectshttp://www.cybrary.org EduHound – educational topics, templates, technology tutorials and practical tipshttp://eduhound.com Gapminder - statistical time series, which converts boring numbers into animated and interactive graphics displaying the trends in some cases back to the year 1800http://www.gapminder.org Google for Educatorshttp://www.google.com/educators/ Smithsonian Education – resources for art & design, science a& technology, history & culture and language arts aligned with state standardshttp://smithsonianeducation.org/educators Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by our content partners – the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy.http://www.thinkfinity.org/ SLR Camera Simulatorhttp://camerasim.com/camera-simulator.html
Best Practices for Fair Use for 21st Century Educators http://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs/ml-copyright-and-fair-use
Beyond LMS Boundaries: Web 2.0 Enriching On-Line Learning and Assessment
Table of Contents
Michele Gill,Vice President, Online Education,Performance Learning Systems mgill@plsweb.com
Barbara Moran, Director, eLearning, Wilkes University barbara.moran@wilkes.edu
Session Information
Session Description
In the transition to online learning, excellent face-to-face teachers often ask "How can I do that online?" Great online courses elicit a better question: "How can I get these results in the classroom?" In this session we'll be presenting web 2.0 tools that allow teachers to supplement their online or classroom instruction with open source content, collaboration, and creativity tools available for free (or nearly) on the web. Leave with a list of resources and ideas to implement immediately.Session Twitter Hashtag: #vss102s1
Presentation Materials and Contributions
21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canada produced by the New Brunswick Department of Education
Links shared in the Popplet Presentation below (and many others listed on the Popplet, but not demonstrated in the session).
Content Resources
High School and College level
Juried, open source content resources, geared to university level courses. Could easily be used by higher level HS courses.
http://merlot.org
Open Courseware Consortium. Another open source course resource. Again geared to College/upper high school.
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/search
Open source college text books.
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject.html
MIT Open Courseware for High School
http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school
P2PU College level course content
http://p2pu.org
Open High School of Utah: Complete online, open source courses for 9th and 10th grade subjects.
http://www.ocw.openhighschool.org
Connexions open source content chunks for hs and college courses.
http://cnx.org/content
Middle /High School
Khan Academy a VAST collection of video lessons, practice sessions, and review activities covering math from basic addition to advanced calculus. Also includes some additional subjects.
http://khanacademy.org
Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards Aligned System Portal: Karpele’s documents with e-reader, lessons, PhET simulations, and much more!
http://pdesas.org
Discovery Streaming : Discovery Channel content available online.
http://www.discoveryeducation.com//teachers
Debategraph: visual maps on nearly any debate topic. Public, constantly growing perspectives on hundreds of topics.
http://debategraph.org
Elementary Level
Teacher LED Whiteboard/ipad resources for elementary and middle school. Mostly math. Some primary letter/number material.
http://teacherled.com
ABCYa.com Educational Computer Games for kids. Amazing volume of resources for each grade level, in multiple subjects. Don’t miss the animation program!
http://abcya.com
Kinetic City from the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides games, activities, challenges geared to elementary students.
http://www.kineticcity.com
Audio and video story books, activities, karaoke, and much, much more for elementary students.
http://speakaboos.com
Demonstration Resources for all subjects and levels
SimpleBooklet a brand new, simple and quick way to create mashups of audio, video, images, text, and embedded code.
http://simplebooklet.com
Museum Box: create a multi level/multi compartment museum box containing cubes. Each cube has multiple faces, and each face contains resources…text, documents, images, audio or video files. Customizable for number of levels and boxes.
http://museumbox.e2bn.org
Glogster for education: create posters and have students collaborate creating unique resources.
http://edu.glogster.com
Voki: create speaking, custom avatars
http://www.voki.com
Blabberize: change any image into a talking video.
http://blabberize.com
Animoto: create slideshows to music, including text.
http://animoto.com
Creation
Floorplanner allows anyone to create detailed floor plans. Great when a project requires this type of demonstration.
http://floorplanner.com
Go!Animate allows quick, computer generated voices to be added to a series of characters, creating simple animations with your content.
http://goanimate.com
Domo Go Animate allows the creator to move cartoon figures, add detailed movements, expressions, and interactions in a series of scenes.
http://domogoanimate.com
Xtranormal now has an EDU site. There are significant fees involved.
http://xtranormal.com/edu
Stick figure animation
http://stykz.net
Create online games, from pixilated basics to third person adventure games. Create tours and walk-throughs.
http://www.adventuremaker.com
Jumpcraft: Another online game creator.
http://jumpcraft.com
Collaboration
Connect with another webcam user, record video and audio on a shared screen, and share that video with the world.
http://wetoku.com
WallWisher: share a single website with your group, and everyone can add brief sticky notes to your wall.
http://wallisher.com
Math
Digital Photography Resourcehttp://course.wilkes.edu/digitalphotography/
SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/
Construction of a Golden Rectangle using SketchUp
http://static4.mathcs.wilkes.edu/Gems/digitalphotography/Construct.swf
GeoGebra
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
GeoGebra: Is your face symmetrical? Using GeoGebra
http://web.wilkes.edu/barbara.moran/Paul-Geogebra.swf
The flash videos in this presentation were created with Jing:
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
Other Math sites
Algebrahelp.com is a collection of lessons, calculators, and worksheets created to assist students and teachers of algebra.http://algebrahelp.com
The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues.
http://www.datamasher.org
BrainNook is a new online game that helps kids develop Math and English skills while exploring the Earth and playing safely with others.
http://www.brainnook.com
Math games, lessons, practice, puzzles, books (Geometry, algebra, pre-calculus)
http://www.coolmath.com
Graphing Calculator
https://www.desmos.com/calculator
Illuminations is designed to provide standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics
http://illuminations.nctm.org
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project with web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).
http://nlvm.usu.edu
Math, Geography, and English Worksheets
http://www.worksheetworks.com
Language Arts
VoiceThreadhttp://voicethread.com/
VoiceThread Example:
http://voicethread.com/#q+english.b153041.i816684
Storybird
http://storybird.com/
Storybird Example:
http://storybird.com/books/the-power-of-friendship-6/
Other Language Arts sites
Books Should Be Free makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way.http://www.booksshouldbefree.com
The lessons are free. There is a new lesson every three days. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news - as the world's news breaks, teach it.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com
Dictionary, word of the day, etc.
http://www.merriam-webster.com
Create tag clouds
http://tagul.com
Writing Workshop on Persuasive Writing
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/minilessons.asp?topic=Persuasive
Multilanguage dictionary
http://elovivo.com
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary
organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Social Studies
Google Siteshttp://sites.google.com/
Google Sites
https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddv49vkt_53c9nj85gr&pli=1
Google Historical Voyages and Events
http://homepage.mac.com/larow2/Voyages/historical.html
Google Historical Voyages and Events Example - Walking Tour Of The "Make It Right" Neighborhood
http://homepage.mac.com/larow2/Voyages/Harris/katrina.html
Other Social Studies sites
Provides webcam content, technology and serviceshttp://www.earthcam.com
Games, videos, animals & pets, photos, countries
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids
Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
http://www.atlapedia.com
Ancient Egypt reference from The British Museum
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/
AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.
http://awesomestories.com
The Library of Congress American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
PBS Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Ken Burns (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns
The National Archives – Docs Teach
http://docsteach.org/
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
Science
Digital Age Approach to MS Sciencehttp://web.wilkes.edu/barbara.moran/iste/ISTE_2011.html
Blog with Egg Drop Experiment Video
http://www.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=208130&title=Egg_Drop_Experiment2
http://rcrcscience.blogspot.com/
iMovie
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Movie Maker
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker
Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/
Egg Drop experiment
http://www.diigo.com/list/bmoran13/laws-of-motion
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
An online, interactive Periodic Table of Elements
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
ClassroomEarth is an online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans.
http://www.classroomearth.org/
Computer animations of physical processes
http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/index.htm
EarthSky has science interviews and other audio and video content available via both broadcast and Internet outlets.
http://earthsky.org/
Edufy provides a free platform to find, share, and edit high quality learning activities shared by other teachers with a focus on STEM education.
http://www.edufy.org/
Knotebooks provides users with the tools to create, collaborate on and share customized, self-guided physics lessons.
http://knotebooks.com/
NASA Kid’s Club
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
Another Periodic Table
http://ptable.com/
The CyberSurgeons simulation provides an authentic way for high school and college students to apply science knowledge and skills.
http://cybersurgeons.net/
Music
http://creatingmusic.com/http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm
Art
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/http://www.gimp.org/
All Areas
ICT Magic – Great resource to find web tools for video editing, photos, science, music, etc.http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite
http://www.blender.org
Flubaroo - Grade online assignments in a single step, free!http://www.flubaroo.com
eduTeacher is a way to keep track of the growing number of web tools that can be used in the classroom settinghttp://www.edutecher.net/
Mini-Geek Fest Resourceshttp://livebinders.com/play/play/51493
Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia e-learning resources. The online Resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects.http://www.curriculumbits.com
Cybrarian – provides help for kids in grades 3-8 with homework assignments, current events, research papers, science fair projectshttp://www.cybrary.org
EduHound – educational topics, templates, technology tutorials and practical tipshttp://eduhound.com
Gapminder - statistical time series, which converts boring numbers into animated and interactive graphics displaying the trends in some cases back to the year 1800http://www.gapminder.org
Google for Educatorshttp://www.google.com/educators/
Smithsonian Education – resources for art & design, science a& technology, history & culture and language arts aligned with state standardshttp://smithsonianeducation.org/educators
Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by our content partners – the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy.http://www.thinkfinity.org/
SLR Camera Simulatorhttp://camerasim.com/camera-simulator.html
Best Practices for Fair Use for 21st Century Educators
http://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs/ml-copyright-and-fair-use
Media Education Lab Free Resources
http://mediaeducationlab.com/curriculum/materials
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